🎉 Power BI and Next-Step 10 years of success! 🎂
In June 2015, Microsoft officially launched Power BI, its data analytics and interactive visualisation platform. Ten years later, it celebrates a decade of innovation, constant evolution and undisputed leadership in the world of Business Intelligence.
Next-Step we feel especially connected to this anniversary: We have also been successfully developing business intelligence projects for ten years, betting from the first day on Power BI technology as the core of our solutions.
🏆 Power BI 10 years as a leader, according to Gartner
Since its first year, Power BI has been recognised as Leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for data analytics and business intelligence (BI) platforms. During ten consecutive yearshas dominated the quadrant alongside well-established tools, but with a strong focus on:
- Democratisation of data.
- Accessible interface for non-technical users.
- Powerful integration with Excel and Microsoft 365.
- Constant evolution based on community feedback.
📈 Power BI evolution 2015-2025
| Year | Key milestone |
|---|---|
| 2015 | Official launch; connection with Excel and first online dashboards. |
| 2016 | First functions DAX and AppSource for sharing reports. |
| 2017 | Launch of Power BI Report Server (on-premise). |
| 2019 | Integration with AI Builder and automatic prediction models. |
| 2020 | Mass adoption in pandemics as a COVID-19 monitoring tool. |
| 2022 | Integration with Microsoft Teams and Collaborative Workspaces. |
| 2023 | is born Microsoft Fabricunifying Data Lake, ETL, BI and AI. |
| 2024 | Copilot arrives in Power BIGenerative AI-assisted analysis. |
| 2025 | Visual Calculations, dynamic fields, and web publishing in Power Query. |
🤖 From static reporting to AI-driven analytics
Power BI is no longer just a data analysis and visualisation tool. Today it is a complete business intelligence ecosystem which it incorporates:
- Insights generation with natural language (Copilot).
- Creation of metrics, measures and dashboards by voice or text.
- Automation of complex analytics with predictive models.
- Integration with Power Platformwhich includes tools for task automation.
🌍 Global and accessible community
One of the major drivers of Power BI has been its vibrant communityThe website offers a wide range of training tools, with forums, idea sharing, templates, customised visuals, and thousands of experts and certified trainers around the world. Today there are:
- More from 500 000 companies who use Power BI at the global level.
- Hundreds of local communitiesof which Next-Step has been a co-founder: PUG Spain, Power Platform Spain, Power Platform Madrid...
- YouTube channels, newsletters, and online courses drive its growth.
🔮 What's next for the coming years?
Microsoft has already stated that the future of Power BI is focused on:
- Greater integration between Copilot and predictive analytics.
- Generation of reports from natural instructions.
- New user experiences with reporting on mobile devices and AR.
- Security and governance at the most demanding enterprise level.
Power BI celebrates 10 years at the forefront of data analytics, a decade marked by innovation, growth and a global community that has transformed the way businesses make decisions.
Still not using Power BI? At Next-Step we help you make the leap to intelligent analytics, contact us and start transforming your data into the best decisions!
*Article written with the help of www.chatgpt.com